This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------55609CDDA0F72A02C4FE7EAC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here is my first test page 445, concerning DANIEL. Bob Maureen wrote: > > I am looking for Daniel Cooley who was the son or grandson of Benjamin Cooley,one of the first settlers of of Mass.If anyone has any information on this family, could you please let me know. (I think he also named his son Benjamin) > Thank you, > Maureen > > ==== COOLEY Mailing List ==== > REMINDER: Repost your queries periodically (no more than monthly) to make new members aware of your interests. > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ --------------55609CDDA0F72A02C4FE7EAC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="Daniel445.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Daniel445.txt" Sr.c-rm~r IV DANIEL COOLEY, 4 DANxgL CooLEY', s. Benjamin and Sarah Cooley, No. 1, page x95, b. May 2, I65x, Springfield, Mass.; d. there Feb. 9, ~727; m. (~) Dec. 8, ~68o, Springfield, Elizabeth Wolcott, da. Simon and Martha (Pitkin), b. Aug. x9, x662, d. Jan. 3x, x7o6/7, Springfield. (For her ancestry, see below.) Daniel Cooley m. (2) June x7, x7o9, Springfield, Lydia (Durableton) Burr, da. John and Mercy Durable- ton, widow (m. ~682) Jonathan Burt3, who was grand- son of Henry Burt~. She was b. Apr. ~6, ~66i, d. Jan. 3~, x739, Springfield. Daniel Cooley' was the fourth child and third son of the immigrant Benjamin Cooley and his wife Sarah. He was born in Springfield, and spent his entire life in that vicinity, being one of those in Longmeadow to sign the petition of ~7o2/3 for permission to remove to higher ground following the flooding of the Long- meadow lowlands along the Connecticut River. His occupation was that of a husbandman. He took an active part, if less outstanding than his father's, in the public affairs of Springfield, and was a man of con- siderable means for his time, dealing in several sales of property as listed in the pages to follow having to do with his deeds. His estate was valued at 825-5-~ ~ when it was settled in ~729, the year following his death. He served as a selectman of Springfield in ~694/5- The first reference to him in the public records of Springfield is in ~678, when he was 27 years old, and two years before his first marriage. He is known to have taken the Oath of Allegiance in that year. In ~68o, on December 8, Daniel Cooley married Eliz- abeth Wolcott. He was 29 years old, and Elizabeth --------------55609CDDA0F72A02C4FE7EAC--